Sunday, 4 December 2016

The small 21 Bitcoin uses a Raspberry Pi Computer 2 to make mining bitcoins, but there's more

The bitcoins still gaining interest in several areas of our lives, and the company has launched a product 21.co precisely designed to take advantage of these types of transactions.

Call 21 Computer Bitcoin is a Raspberry Pi 2 connected to a small module that is responsible for making mining bitcoins and also provides other options such as establishing a system of micropayments with bitcoin.

Does it make sense to do mining with Raspberry Pi 2?

The creator of this company claims that with Bitcoin Computer 21 can create an online store with a micropayment system based on bitcoin , but proposes other uses.

For example, reward users who post links on social media that store, or to combine this solution with other like connected locks or 3D printers to enable use via payment.

The truth is that the power that is able to supply the Raspberry Pi 2 even decent, is not enough to use for this purpose if we "get rich". The additional chip helps, no doubt, but the idea is to be able to create our own shop with this payment system that make mining bitcoins as such.

The device is now available on Amazon for $ 399 , and includes the Raspberry Pi 2, a WiFi adapter, power adapter, a USB cable to microUSB and microSD card of 128 Gbytes . In fact we can use this as a full node wit bitcoin, because it includes a copy of blockchain installed for this purpose